Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Wednesday said research work on education should be enhanced to gear up development process in the country.

"We have to improve quality of education through research work," he told a cheque distribution function at the National Academy for Educational Management (NAEM), an official release said.

Director General of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Dr SM Prof Wahiduzzaman, among others, addressed the function with Director General of NAEM Prof Md Hamidul Haque in the chair.

Nahid said the present government has taken the challenge of ensuring quality education for the new generation.

"Government is working to provide knowledge and technology-based world-standard education in line with morality as well as the spirit of 1971 Liberation War," he added.-BSS